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Patna,(BiharTimes): During the Assembly election campaign they claimed that people did not use to go out after sunset during the previous regimes. Now after being elected to the Assembly they are being asked by their own police top brass not to venture out after the sun is down as the Maoists may kill them.
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According to reports police have advised the newly elected MLAs of the ruling NDA––some of them have even become ministers––from Maoist-hit districts against visiting the interiors of their constituencies on thanksgiving tours as they fear the rebels could use the functions to get rid of them. If they do want to go they should not do so without armed bodyguards.
For example, Janata Dal (United) MLA Raju Kumar Singh has been not to go to Binni village in Muzaffarpur district on the evening of January 10, to meet voters. He and Paroo BJP MLA Ashok Singh are on the hitlist of the ultra-Left. The Maoists had over the phone threatened both of them of dire consequences.
Janata Dal (United) MLA from Minapur, Dinesh Kushwaha, who was even assaulted by a section of voters on the polling day, is also under threat from the Maoists.
Senior police officials have asked all ministers, MLAs, MPs and MLCs to remain vigilant when they visit their constituencies. These warnings have been issued after an intelligence tip-off.
It needs to be recalled that during the Assembly election campaign the Maoists warned the Speaker of Bihar Assembly, Uday Narayan Chaudhary, not to enter his constituency, Imamganj in Gaya district. Though Chaudhary campaigned under heavy security he could not enter many villages, especially in the Dumaria block of the constituency.
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